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lauland
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on: July 08, 2024, 02:01
I figured, having gotten as far as the (semi-expected according to the instructions) error building the runtime, it was a good time to take a pause and time what I have going so far...to compare what difference a few upgrades/etc can make... So this is just to the point where there is an error reported building the runtime, related to the ContexualMenus stub library from Universal Headers 3.4 (all mentioned in my other post). To measure all this, I deleted the "Mozilla opt progress" file, and double clicked "BuildMozila.pl", repeatedly, averaging times. NOTE: It is NOT actually building anything, but just checking on everything up to that point, which includes opening over a hundred CodeWarrior projects, checking the Manifests, the xpt plugin, the IDL generation, and most of the way through the runtime. So the actual numbers I mention below do NOT mean much, but it is comparing them that is interesting... ---- SheepShaver on a low end 2ghz i5 MacBook Pro, with 256m (no vm possible), takes 11:15, so the others can be compared to this as a baseline. My G4 "Mystic/Gigabit Ethernet", with a 400mhz 7400 cpu card out of a Sawtooth, and 2g ram (unexpectedly, all of which MacOS 9 seems to see?), takes about 8:00 for the same thing. But the PowerMac 7600, with 256m of ram, is where the interesting things begin... ---- Since having goofy CodeWarrior launching issues, I wanted to do a clean install from scratch, and took the opportunity to put in a Sonnet IDE card with a 250g drive. (So it'd really be from scratch). It has a 500mhz G3 card, and with the IDE drive, the same build as on SS and the G4 takes around 9:50. FYI For comparison, using a higher end 18g (server class?) SCSI drive with the built in controller took 12:08. Putting in an ATI Rage 128, seemed to take roughly 5-7 seconds off the build...I'd hoped for more since a LOT of windows are opened and closed rapidly during the build. I also have a 400mhz 7400 G4 card, with it instead of the 500mhz G3, it takes right around 10:00, less of a difference than I expected... While I was at it, I was curious how bad things would be with the stock 120mhz 604 cpu (and IDE controller): 37:30! I also have a Sonnet SATA card, and won't be able to resist testing it out. I was wanting to avoid wasting too much more time mucking with hardware, but the IDE controller in the 7600 made a big difference! Will try it in both the 7600 and the G4... ---- So the G4 is obviously the fastest...real shame about ShapeShifter being slower than the PowerMac 7600, since I like being able to take my laptop to coffee shops... ...not that the fact it isn't the fastest will stop me. I'm at one right now, with Classilla building in the background...having copied over the ContextualMenus stub library from the 3.3.2 Universal Headers into the copy of 3.4.x, it now gets all the way through building the runtime and is well on its way..."common" "imglib" "necko" "security" "browserutils" "intl" "nglayout"...and counting... The build times (other than using the 604 cpu!) still are all in the same rough ballpark...and even though this is just the first part of the build process, I can (probably) extrapolate. Conclusion: When you're talking about using a particular machine, instead of another, if it will take 5-15 minutes less, out a 2+ hour total process, it doesn't make THAT much difference... |
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Last Edit: July 08, 2024, 02:24 by lauland
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